(Image: Uncle Ike’s via Twitter)

The largest pot retailer in Seattle — and the second largest I-502 shop in the state — is set to open its Capitol Hill expansion.

Uncle Ike’s announced Monday that its 15th Ave E location will be open for business starting Friday.

The debut will make the sleepy corner of 15th and Republican a veritable hub of legal marijuana as Capitol Hill’s first ever I-502 retail shop, Ruckus, opened there just in time for Christmas 2015. CHS has documented the ongoing rivalry between Ruckus owner Sam Burke and Ike’s owner Ian Eisenberg as the two have tussled for space — and sometimes left older neighborhood businesses struggling in their wake — on one of the only pot-friendly corners of Central Seattle.

Uncle Ike’s is a CHS advertiser.

Friday’s Ike’s opening in the overhauled building formerly home to an animal clinic will also include the debut of a new retail space in the project for longtime 15th Ave E neighborhood business, Angel’s Shoe Repair.

Eisenberg said the new store won’t be fully completed before its debut but that it should be ready for business by Friday. The opening will come just in time for a new zombie bar crawl event Uncle Ike’s is sponsoring for the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce. Nope, the crawl won’t end at Uncle Ike’s Capitol Hill — but the Canterbury isn’t far away.

How Eisenberg’s highly successful pot venture will operate on Capitol Hill remains to be seen but his original shop in the Central District at 23rd and Union has been a lightning rod for controversy while also amassing strong sales totals. In September, the store turned in receipts totaling more than $1.2 million, the second strongest showing in Washington after Vancouver’s Main Street Marijuana.